The Lightner Method™ is rooted in new paradigms for human:
  • Well-being
  • Architecture (Structure)
  • Function (Coordination of action-movement)
  • Adaptation (Learning)
The more accurate your perspective the more access you'll have to clarity, ease, freedom and empowerment.

The core of the work is to support you to experience the mechanics and miracle of your own being so you can harness that information to live and do how and what you want with less obstacles and roadblocks. This is the foundation for living a thriving life.
The Lightner Method™ is a pedagogy for the 21st century.
      It is an approach to:
  • Ease common chronic physical pain such as knee pain, back pain, shoulder pain.
  • Shift frustration, anxiety or worry to clarity and calm.
  • Transform effort, strain in moving to light, lively mobility.
  •  Experiencing your current capabilities rather than always try to improve/change.
  • Align your teaching strategies with the way the human system works.
  • Empower yourself and your students.

Spring & Summer Courses and workshops:
On-going ON-line Movement Class Friday mornings 7:15 to 8:15 AM CST (8:15-9:15 EST) Join anytime INFO
On-line LearningMethods­™ Group Monday evenings 6-8 PM CST (7-9 EST) INFO
Blaine High Schools, Choral Department Professional Development, Taking Care of Yourself while Taking Care of Your Choir, April 14th
VoiceCare Network, BodyMind and Voice, (July 13-20) and Conducting Course, (July 23-28), St John's University, Collegeville, MN. INFO
Minnesota ACDA Summer Dialogue, August 8-11 - A Virtuous Cycle: Empowering the Wholeness of Mind, Body and
Well-Being in Rehearsal INFO
Western University Choral Music Education Summer Session: Explorations in Gesture, Sound and Pedagogy, August 26-30 , London, Ontario INFO
Winter 2017 workshops info here: INFO

News: Here's a link to an article about a workshop for High School Choir I did at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine in September. Article Link


Enjoy the Spring 2017 LightnerMethod Journal.  For links to past journals go to the resource page.

Architecture/Structure

Your Elastic Suspension System
A buoyant, sprung design

Free yourself.
Move with ease.
Be empowered in your body.
Liberate from the posture & alignment paradigm.
Teach the most current structural paradigm.

Coordination/Function

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Your Coordinating System
Your other-than-consciousness organizes your actions.

How you do what you do.
Improve skill acquisition
Learn how to get out of your own way.
Let your system work for you.
Enhance  performance in all areas of life.
Learn tools to scaffold your learning and teaching based on the current motor-learning and neuro-science paradigms.

Adaptation/Learning

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Your Learning System
Learning happens.

At every moment your system is learning and adapting.

Rediscover the joy of learning.

Take the wrong and right out of learning; bring clarity into learning.

Gain tools to set up discovery processes in your classroom.
Teach so your students can learn.
Facilitate independent learners.